JPH03232060A - Documentation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify table generation procedures by only designating the generation area of a table and the start point of a rule to judge a horizontal or vertical rule, and generating the horizontal or vertical rule from the designated start point thereafter. CONSTITUTION:When the start point of a rule is designated and this start point X is on a line XS or XE, a rule to be drawn is decided as a horizontal rule. A rule generating part 11 generates the horizontal rule of a designated line classification in the position of a work buffer 11 corresponding to the part from the position of the line XS to that of the line XE of the row read out to a one-row buffer 9. When the start point X is not on the line XS neither XE, the rule to be drawn is decided as a vertical rule, and a variable SL is set to a row counter variable ML. A one-row read part 7 reads out the row designated by ML in a text buffer 5 to the one-row buffer 9, and the vertical rule of the designated line classification is generated in the position of a work buffer 12 corresponding to a cursor position X of this read-out row. Thus, the table is easily generated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document creation device that creates a table by drawing ruled lines of a predetermined line type vertically and horizontally in a predetermined area within five documents.

(Prior art and problem to be solved by the invention) When creating a table using a document creation device such as a conventional word processor, it is necessary to press the 5 cursor key from the start point to the end point to draw ruled lines one by one. There was a problem that the work was complicated.

The present invention has been made to solve these problems, and by simply specifying the table creation area and the starting point of the ruled line, the table can be drawn from the specified starting point within the creation area. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that facilitates table creation and has high operability.

Furthermore, if there are characters within the border creation area,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device that can prevent characters from overlapping with ruled lines or from being erased due to the creation of ruled lines.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A document creation device of the present invention is a document creation device that creates a table by drawing ruled lines vertically and horizontally in a predetermined area within a document. A means for specifying a starting point, a means for determining whether a ruled line to be drawn is a vertical ruled line or a horizontal ruled line based on the position of the specified starting point, a creation area, and after specifying the starting point of a ruled line, a vertical ruled line or a horizontal ruled line from the specified starting point and means for drawing within the creation area.

Furthermore, the means for drawing vertical ruled lines or horizontal ruled lines within the creation area does not draw a ruled line at the position of the character when a character is present within the creation area during ruled line creation.

(Function) The document creation device of the present invention specifies the table creation area and the starting point of the ruled line, and then determines whether the ruled line to be drawn is a horizontal ruled line or a vertical ruled line based on the specified starting point, and specifies the specified starting point. Draw horizontal or vertical ruled lines in the table creation area from the starting point.

Furthermore, if a character exists in the ruled line creation area, no ruled line is drawn at the position of the character.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on drawings showing examples thereof.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the document creation device of the present invention. 1 in the figure is a key to instruct automatic ruled line creation, a cursor key to move the cursor on the table frame to indicate the starting point of the ruled line, a key to specify the line type (thin line, thick line, dotted line, etc.), and a key to end the process. Commands input from the keyboard 1 are input to the control unit 4. The control unit 4 controls data exchange between each part of the device according to input commands. A line counter 2 counts the number of lines in a document, and a cursor counter 3 counts the number of characters in one line.

The text buffer 5 stores the document, and the table frame determination unit 6 determines whether the table frame is complete. The one-line data reading unit 7 reads one line of document data from the text buffer 5 and stores it in the one-line buffer 9. The character determination unit 10 determines whether or not a character (including a symbol) exists in one line of document data stored in the one-line buffer 9 at a position where a ruled line is to be generated. The ruled line generation unit 11 generates in the work buffer 12 ruled line data of a specified line type to be drawn on a line stored in the one-line buffer 9. At this time, no ruled line is generated at the position where the character determined by the character determination unit 11 exists. The data generated in the work buffer 12 is written to the one-line buffer 9, and the one-line data writing section 8 writes the data written to the one-line buffer 9 to the text buffer 5.

A display unit 13 made of a CRT or the like displays data written in the text buffer 5.

The procedure by which the document creation device configured as described above generates vertical ruled lines or horizontal ruled lines within a table frame will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG. 2.

First, it is determined whether the automatic ruled line instruction key has been pressed. If a key has been pressed, it is determined whether the cursor position is on a movable ruled line. If the cursor is on a movable ruled line, the cursor position is set to variable X, the left end position of the specified table frame is set to variable XS, and the right end position is set to variable XE. Table frame determination section 6 is XS
- Determine whether or not the space between XE is a complete table frame. If the table frame is complete, the bottom row of the table frame is set to variable SL, and the bottom row of the table frame is set to variable EL.

Next, the starting point of the ruled line is specified using the cursor keys. The cursor keys can only move the cursor on the table frame.
Use the left and right keys to move one half-width character left and right, and the up and down keys to move one character left and right.
The line moves up and down, and the variable X at the cursor position is incremented by ``1'' by input with the left key, 5 by 1 by input with the right key, and the value does not change by input with the up and down keys.

When the starting point of a ruled line is specified, the starting point
If it is equal to the value of , the ruled line to be drawn is determined to be a horizontal ruled line.

The one-line data reading unit 7 reads the line where the cursor is located from the text buffer 5 to the one-line buffer 9. The ruled line generation unit 11 generates a horizontal ruled line in the specified line type at a position in the work buffer 11 corresponding to the position between the XS position and the XE position of the line read into the one-line buffer 9. At this time, if the character determination unit 10 determines that a character exists between the position XS and the position XE, no horizontal ruled line is generated at the position of that character. The horizontal ruled lines generated in the work buffer 12 are written to the one-line buffer 9, and the one-line data writing section 8 writes the contents of the one-line buffer 9 to the text buffer 5.
write to. The display unit 13 displays the line in the text buffer 5 specified by the ML.

Furthermore, if the starting point X is not equal to the value of XS or XE, the ruled line to be drawn is determined to be a vertical ruled line, and the variable SL is set to the line counter variable ML. The one-line data reading unit 7 reads the line of the text buffer 5 specified by ML into the one-line buffer 9. A vertical ruled line is generated with the specified line type at the position of the work buffer icon 2 corresponding to the cursor position X of the line read into the one-line buffer 9. At this time, if the two-character determining unit 10 determines that a character exists at the cursor position X, no vertical ruled line is generated at the position in the work buffer 12 corresponding to that position. The ruled lines generated in the work buffer 12 are in the one-line buffer 9
The one-line data writing section 8 writes the contents of the one-line buffer 9 into the text buffer 5. Display section 13
displays the line in the text buffer 5 specified by ML.

Furthermore, 1'' is added to the line counter variable ML, and the above-described process is repeated until ML exceeds EL, and vertical ruled lines are drawn.

3 and 4 are screen display examples showing the procedure for generating horizontal ruled lines and vertical ruled lines, respectively, in which one point on the table frame is Specify with the cursor,
As shown in Figures 3(b) and 4(b), specify the starting point of the ruled line with the cursor and press the line type key.
and Fig. 4 (horizontal ruled lines and vertical ruled lines are drawn with the specified line type from the starting point specified by 1 shown in (). Note that if there is a character at the position where the ruled line is generated, Fig. 4 fc) As shown in the figure, a ruled line is generated without generating a ruled line at a position where a character exists.

(Effects of the Invention) The document creation device of the present invention merely specifies the table creation area and the starting point of the ruled line, determines whether it is a horizontal ruled line or a vertical ruled line, and then generates a horizontal ruled line or a vertical ruled line from the specified starting point. Because of this configuration, the table creation procedure is simple and the device has excellent operability.

Furthermore, if there are characters at the generation position of the ruled line,
Since no ruled lines are generated at that position, the table can be created without destroying the documents in the table, which is an excellent effect.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 4 are diagrams showing a document creation device of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the document creation device, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the procedure for generating ruled lines,
FIGS. 3 and 4 are screen display examples showing the procedure for generating ruled lines. 1...Keyboard, 2...Line counter, 3...Cursor counter, 4...Control unit, 5...Text buffer, 6...Table frame determination unit, 7...1 line data reading unit , 8... 1-line data writing unit, 9... 1-line buffer, 10... Character determination unit, 11... Ruled line generation unit,
12...Work buffer, 13...Display section. Figure 2A Figure 3(C)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A document creation device that creates a table by drawing ruled lines vertically and horizontally in a predetermined area within a document, comprising: means for specifying a table creation area; means for specifying a starting point of the ruled line; A method for determining whether a ruled line to be drawn is a vertical ruled line or a horizontal ruled line based on the position of the starting point, and after specifying the creation area and the starting point of the ruled line, starting from the starting point,
A document creation device comprising means for drawing vertical ruled lines or horizontal ruled lines within the creation area. 2. The means for drawing vertical ruled lines or horizontal ruled lines in a specified creation area is such that if a character exists in the creation area during ruled line creation, the process is performed without drawing a ruled line at the position of the character. The document creation device according to claim 1, characterized in that: